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title: "October 4, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, October 4, 2024. 4 October (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Friday

# October 4, 2024

4 October (Revised Julian) · 15th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

## Readings of the day

- Epistle

  Galatians 4:8–21

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  8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

  9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

  10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

  11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

  12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

  14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

  15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

  18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

  19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

  20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

  21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

- Gospel

  Luke 7:31–35

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  31 “To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

  32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

  33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

  34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  35 Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)